hideousness

Example Sentences

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Those monsters represent the hideousness of the human soul.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

She added they would "show how music and creativity can bring unity in times of just hideousness".

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2022

We’re done for today with what Edgar Allan Poe called “the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed”.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019

Krasinski has clearly absorbed a lesson in conceptual economy from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," and like a "Jaws"-era Steven Spielberg, he takes his time revealing the monsters in all their sharp-fanged, big-eared hideousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2018

I felt desperate to use the chamber pot, but first I had to face the hideousness that awaited outside.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly